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Has anyone considered the effect of orbits on war in space in a somewhat hard SF setting? [closed]
(This is assuming the hypothetical conflict is a couple centuries in the future at most, but not long enough that we've developed FTL, robot terminator armies or 1 day trips to Saturn)
Every two years ...
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Looking for a manhwa about a person who got a thief system
I'm looking for a manhwa where the main character goes to another world where he is in a game where regular people have to escape from five people in a city. The mc gets a system that makes it easier ...
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Was Igor Karkaroff headmaster of Durmstrang during the first time Voldemort was in power?
We know that Karkaroff was a death eater during the first wizarding war. But was he also teaching at Durmstrang during that time or did he joined the school after coming back from Azkaban during the ...
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Book about a spaceship that crashed under the surface of a planet
I recall reading a book about a spaceship that crashed and people couldn't get out for a while because it was under the surface they had to dig up. Interestingly, the characters were referred to by ...
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Manga where main character is return to the past by a god wearing a full cloak
So there's a manga stuck in my head and it's split up into 3 pieces:
The main character (MC) got sent back by a god who is wearing a full cloak.
The MC set himself on fire to get free after being ...
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Looking for dystopian novel with a terraplane race [duplicate]
I have a memory of reading a book (in English) in school in the UK during the mid-90s (probably '94 and definitely no later than '96), that was set in a dystopian future, but can't remember the name ...
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Manhwa where the female lead is reincarnated as a holy spirit; spirits are ranked by numbers based on their strength, and she is the weakest
I'm not sure if this was all in my head, but I remember a manhwa with the following plot:
The female lead reincarnated as a holy spirit or something like that. These spirits are ranked by numbers ...
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Looking for name of a B-grade apocalyptic / (sort of) comedy movie set in a bunker where everyone is partying and dying of radiation poisoning
I am looking for the name of a B-grade nuclear apocalyptic movie mainly set in a bunker and everyone is partying. I watched it back in the early 90's so I think it's from the late 80's or 90's.
What I ...
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Why doesn't the Dominion employ cloaking technology?
Given how technologically advanced the Dominion are, they should have access to cloaking technology.
Why don't they employ it?
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1970s teen underground city book
I read this book as a young teenager. It was about a scientist who developed a machine that could tunnel underground they made it so far and they discovered an ancient civilization. The civilization ...
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What would the Star Wars equivalent of moonshine be? [closed]
I know that there's spice and death sticks in Star Wars, but there's no record of any illegal beverages and I was wondering if there was what it would be called?
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Details of an ALF episode with Ann Meara: Did she threaten ALF?
I have a fairly clear recollection of an episode in which a conversation between her and the father of the family goes something like this:
Father: It's amazing how rapidly the sense of wonder [at ...
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Short story about a boy who meets a dwarf in his garden, travels to a parallel world where people become mist and rescues his mom
I am trying to find a science fiction short story I read a few years ago. It would likely have been in a sci-fi anthology (multiple authors) or in a "Best of Phillip K Dick" book, but from ...
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Animated story of space explorers held captive by aliens to play sports
I recall watching an animated story in the mid 1980s as a kid where explorers go to either the moon or another planet and encounter an alien race that can jump high or far. The aliens end up forcing ...
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Looking for title of story where man meets space station garbage alien
I read this story somewhere between 5-10 years ago (2014-2019) either as a stand-alone short story or in one of those "year's best sci-fi" anthologies, so it was likely published 2005-2013. ...
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